Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
The center of a cluster as determined by a k-means or k-median algorithm. For example, if k is 3, then the k-means or k-median algorithm finds 3 centroids.
See Clustering algorithms in the Clustering course for more information.
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A retail segmentation team labels its customer clusters by inspecting the centroid of each cluster in the feature space and writing a marketing persona to match.
A logistics planner uses centroids of historical pickup locations to position warehouses closer to demand.
A help-desk operations team examines centroids of complaint clusters to identify the most representative ticket in each category.
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